This plan outlines the actions required to permanently disarm, end militarism and convert 90%
of the Department of Defense and the military industrial complex (DOD-MIC) personnel
resources and spending for peaceful purposes with no layoffs.

It also provides a rough draft of a proposed "Defense Doctrine for the U.S.”

Provide a general plan to permanently disarm, end militarism, phase out the standing military
and convert about 90% of the Department of Defense and military industrial complex (DoD-MIC) personnel, facilities, land, vehicles, aircraft, small craft, funding, contracts, and other
resources to strengthened State Guards and the United Nations peacekeepers and for work
outlined in the Common Agenda for a peaceful, just, prosperous world with no involuntary
layoffs with the remaining 10% used for the common defense.

19.3Objectives:

19.3.1 Develop and implement a “Defense Doctrine,” for the U.S. based on cooperation and
diplomacy with other Nations.

19.3.2 Help organize and strengthen State Guards to become more effective, ready and able
to execute their Constitutional and other responsibilities.

19.3.3Develop plans to rapidly decrease the size of standing armies and inventories of
offensive weapons with the U.S. taking the lead. Ultimately outlaw large standing
armies and offensive weapons.

19.3.4Provide the heart of a dedicated workforce of planners, logisticians, technicians and
workers to address the serious challenges including global warming\climate change,
developing and implementing sustainable energy sources to replace carbon and
nuclear power based sopurces and providing a decent life now and in the future for all
mankind.

19.4.2Apply Lessons Learned by the Soviets and Others When they Decreased the Size
of their Armed Forces and Converted their Defense Industries

Russia and other former Soviet block countries have considerable experience and have
learned many lessons about reducing their armed forces and converting their military industries
for civilian purposes which they began in the late 1980's.

19.4.2.2“Soon after the signing of the Soviet-U.S. treaty on intermediate-range
nuclear forces (INF) in December 1987, our top economic priority
became conversionwith two elements:

19.4.2.2.1reduction of the armed forces and

19.4.2.2.2transforming military into civilian production.

we began reducing military production and arms spending in early 1988. This
aspect of the conversion process was formalized on March 21, 1989. [The Russians have a
twenty four years lead, but the U.S. could quickly catch up.]

[Shortly after this, Soviet officials proposed to U.S. officials, substantial reductions in
Soviet and U. S. nuclear weapons and other arms which sadly U.S. officials rejected.]

the essence and main problem of conversion concerns the second element - the
diversification and retooling of the armaments industry and its research and design
branches.

Long term planning is crucial for the demilitarization of national economies in
countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union, because the conversion
process involves many sectors of production and must have constant political
guidance, as well as government supervision.”

By 1990, 400 defense plants were being retooled to manufacture more civilian
products, while some other plants had been temporarily closed for major reconstruction.
Three defense plants were ready for complete conversion

As defense plants started producing machinery and equipment to process agricultural
goods, they found that civilian research institutes were preparing designs that did
not meet modern requirements.

Actually, the high cost of goods produced at defense plants is one of the negative
aspects of conversion.

Another difficulty of conversion concerns military equipment that is unusable for
civilian production.

Conversion in the United States and the Soviet Union should be actively and
consistently buttressed by political decisions and agreements furthering the
disarmament process and building up trust.”

19.4.3Conversion or Chaos? by John P. Hardt, Associate Director of the Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress. Excerpts:

19.4.4Leonid Vid’s frank and revealing article suggests that for the Soviets,
conversion is a much broader and longer term policy than so far has been
assumed in the West [Mr. Hardt stated this in early1990 - sadly it is still very true
today].

19.4.5I would contend that a major, immediate shift from defense to civilian
growth is necessary - and an end to the privileged access to resources
enjoyed by the military.

19.4.5.1The choice between guns and butter rests on three potential policy
shifts:

19.4.5.2Implementing a defensive military doctrine [our Constitution requires a
common defense not offense] would greatly reduce the priority
requirements of the military on the economy, in terms of both quantity
and quality.

19.4.5.3The pursuit of global interdependence according to Gorbachev’s “new
thinking” would downgrade the role of military forces and military aid.

19.4.5.4The allocation of resources now and in the upcoming five-year plan,
to fulfill consumption requirements would reinforce the reduction of the
military sector’s priority.”

19.4.6Develop and Implement a Defense Doctrine. The development of a Defense Doctrine
was recommended by John P. Hardt, Associate Director of the Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress, in his article “Conversion or Chaos?"
about the Soviets transforming from military to civilian production

19.4.6.1Organize, Fund and Strengthen the State Guards (Militias) currently
called National Guards as necessary to execute their Constitutional and
other responsibilities

19.4.6.2Reprogram 100% of Spending on Illegal Programs for Use for
Peaceful Purposes

19.4.6.2.1War on terror, torture, assassinations, secret arrests, renditions,
abusive treatment of detainees and prisoners, use of
paramilitaries, spying on the people of the U.S. and CIA spending
on drones.

19.4.6.2.2Overtly or covertly, intervening in the internal affairs or attempting
"regime changes" in any country.

19.4.7Reprogram about 90% of total DoD-MIC Spending for Use for Peaceful Purposes.
This can be done by:

19.4.7.1Ending U.S. wars, occupations, attacks with drones, covert operations,
all uses of force and prohibiting the use of any appropriations for any of
these acts

19.4.7.2Closing U.S. overseas bases and facilities

19.4.7.3Drastically reducing the size and changing the roles of the standing
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Department of Defense, Defense
Agencies, Warfare Centers and Laboratories

19.4.7.4.9Ceasing deployments of U. S. Ships, aircraft, members or units of
the U. S. Armed Forces and military contractors

19.4.7.4.10 Ending all military aid, arms/munitions sales/gifts and military
technical support.

19.4.7.4.11 Not using the U. S. Military inside the United States

19.4.8Use the Remaining 10% of DoD-MIC Spending for the Common Defense.

19.4.9Phase out the the Standing Military and With no Layoffs Transfer/Employ about
90% of DoD Civilian and Military Personnel Including U. S. Troops and
Government Contractors Coming Home from Overseasto Provide Leadership,
Training, Planning, Technical Personnel and Workers For Peaceful Purposes in:

19.4.9.1A New Works Projects Administration (WPA)

19.4.9.2New Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

19.4.9.3Work on the Common Agenda

19.4.9.4The Peace Corps

19.4.9.5State Guards, which will be under the control of state governments

As appropriate and if eligible these individuals can go to college, go back to
their old job, or find a new job,. There will be employment opportunities for all
and no involuntary layoffs although transfers will obviously be necessary.

19.4.10Convert about 90% Department of Defense Land, Bases, Facilities,
Buildings, Equipments, Ships, Vehicles and Aircraft for Use for Peaceful,
Productive Purposes, for example:

19.4.10.1Bases, facilities, buildings for WPAs and CCCs to plan, train and
manage work from.

19.4.10.5Hospitals and clinics which are being closed turned into not for profit
Medicare/Medicaid hospitals and clinics that provides free, single payer
comprehensive physical, dental, and mental health care for everyone,
civilians, military and veterans, and also educate and trains, doctors,
nurses, dentists, nurses aids and other health care personnel.

19.4.10.7Environmental friendly, energy efficient, safe versions of the products
that they normally produce e.g. Rail and trolley instead of automobiles.

19.4.10.8New items needed for the work outlined in the Common Agenda.

19.4.11Convert Most DOD Contracts From Producing Weapon Systems to
Producing Products for Peaceful, Productive Purposes and Assign
Management of Contracts to the New WPA in particular for the work,
programs and projects listed in the Common Agenda. For example, instead of
producing F35 fighter/bombers and aerial tankers, build firefighting aircraft to
combat the ever increasing wildfire threat which is being exacerbated by global
warming. This work should employ modern technologies such as stir welding of
aluminum. Also, these firefighting aircraft should be equipped with modern
technology including heat/fire sensors, night vision, GPS, all weather capability,
sophisticated digital sensors and communications and the precision firefighting
system.

19.4.12Use time and materials type contracts with no profits, overhead, G & A, or
percentages of any kind in all these contracts

19.4.13Government Help Workers Purchase and Operate Insolvent Companies.
Keep their workforce employed at a living wage producing useful goods.

19.4.16U.S. Develop Plans and Lead Efforts to Rapidly Outlaw and Phase Out All
Nuclear and other Offensive Weapons Worldwide

Nuclear weapons are illegal [also immoral and no longer a deterrent] as stated in the book
Nuclear Weapons are Illegal, The Historic opinion of the World Court and how it will be
enforced, edited with an introduction by Ann Fagan Ginger, Executive Director of the
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, California.

Congress and the Administration must:

19.4.17Take the lead on complete disarmament the cessation of the nuclear arms
race and complete disarmament as required by Article VI of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which requires: pursue
negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the
nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty
on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international
control.

19.4.18Cease expending any funds on any nuclear weapon development programs
or to improve or refine existing programs.

19.4.18.1Build on ongoing initiatives and develop a comprehensive Plan for the
United States Role in Global Nuclear Disarmament which includes
identifying obstacles and the underlying reasons for these obstacles and
proposes short and long range solutions.

19.4.18.2 Provide full funding and attention to securing all nuclear weapons and
nuclear weapon materials as rapidly as possible.

19.4.18.3 Conduct meaningful negotiations with all of the world's nuclear powers
and Iran on the phase out of all nuclear weapons.

19.4.18.4 Immediately remove all U.S. weapons of mass destruction including any
nuclear weapons from the Mideast as required by Article 14 of UN
Security Council resolution 687.

19.4.18.5Assist in maintaining the Middle East WMD/Nuclear Weapons Free
Zone and insure that there are no nuclear or other weapons of mass
destruction on any U.S. Ships or in possession of any other U.S. forces
deployed in the Middle East as required by Article 14 of UN Security
Council Resolution 687 (1991). This resolution calls for "establishing in
the Middle East a zone free from weapons of mass destruction and all
missiles for their delivery."

19.4.18.6Eliminate funding for nuclear weapon development and improvement
programs including bombplex/"complex transformation", the reliable
replacement warhead (RRW) programs and any other nuclear
proliferation initiatives. This is required by Article VI of the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Accomplishing the above will strengthen the U.S. government's position when requesting that
other states such as Iran and North Korea not develop nuclear weapons and will encourage
other countries to help with other serious problems.

19.4.19Other offensive weapons to be outlawed include:

19.4.19.1Armed and spy drones. Considerable detailed information about drones
are provided at www.droneswatch.org.

19.5.2.1Wars have been illegal and all conflicts must be settled by
peaceful means since the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international
treatment to outlaw war, was signed in 1928 and ratified by the
Senate in 1929

19.5.2.2As outlined in Attachment A, the U.S. Constitution, the supreme
law of the land, clearly shows that:

19.5.2.3Standing armies are to be “raised” by Congress when needed
and should not be permanent.

19.5.2.4 Militias (State Guards) are supposed to “repel invasions” which
they could easily do since we have no real enemies

19.5.3The Department of Defense employs over three million individuals and
spends about a trillion dollars a year. Despite there being no threats and wars
being illegal, according to the DoD website:

The Department of Defense employs over three million well educated highly trained
individuals, 95% percent of whom have high school diplomas versus 79 percent of the
national work force. 450,000 of them are stationed overseas. They include every
profession. They have been provided technical, leadership, and professional
development and core values of duty, integrity, ethics, honor, courage, and loyalty have
been reinforced throughout their careers.

DoD has several hundred thousand individual buildings and structures at more than
5,000 different locations or sites and over 30 million acres of land.

When the cost of wars and all supporting agencies and activities are counted, DoD-MIC
spends over a trillion dollars a year.

19.5.4About 90% of DoD resources and funds are being wasted on illegal wars,
drone attacks, covert operations and useless Cold War weapons systems, and
overseas bases that are generating terrorists and ill will against the U.S.

19.5.4.2The answer - Full Employment with former U.S. troops and
MIC workersorganized and working in new WPAs and CCCs
or on items in the Common Agenda: infrastructure repair,
alternative energy sources, heath care for all, affordable
housing, etc. This work will be therapeutic and will improve the
self-esteem of all involved

19.6Maintain the Status of this Plan Up to Date and Available to the Public

The status of all of these items should be continually maintained and available to the public on
the White House web site.

Attachment A

Attachment A: Constitutional War Powers: Common Defensive Not Offense and State
Guards (Militias), Not Standing Armies

“War ... should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and
treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its
fruits.”

“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous
enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the
branches of Power.”

President James Madison

War Powers and Responsibilities granted to Congress by the Constitution under Article I. - The
Legislative Branch, Section 8 - “The Congress shall have Power:”

To Provide for the common Defense[Not offense]

To Define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and
Offenses against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a
longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress
Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing
such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to
the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training
the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

To make all Lawswhich shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the
foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government
of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

War powers and responsibilities granted to the President by the Constitution are very limited
and are:

19.6.1 Article II - Section 1:

19.6.1.1The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States

19.6.1.2The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of
the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called
into the actual Service of the United States [by Congress]; ...

19.6.2 Article II - Section 3

19.6.2.1 The President “shall take Care that the Laws [made by Congress] be
faithfully executed”.

Please note that: “Shall” is a mandate and “faithfully” executed implies that the spirit and intent
of the “Laws” are executed. This mandate is all encompassing and covers all the private and
public sectors, the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government, corporations, the
election laws, banking laws. The president has the entire executive department to support him
in executing this massive and critical responsibility.